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MICOUD, St Lucia, CMC – Barbados beat Guyana by seven wickets in their third round match of the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 One-Day Trophy at the Beauchamp Playing Field yesterday.

BUDAPEST, Hungary,  CMC – Mechanical problems forced British driver Lewis Hamilton out of contention as Red Bull’s Mark Webber won the Hungarian Grand Prix yesterday, to snatch the lead in the Formula One drivers’ standings.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain and senior batsman Mohammad Yousuf has been summoned out of  retirement to join the team for the rest of their series in  England, the Pakistan Cricket Board said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Pakistan’s 10 lowest test innings totals  after they were bowled out for 80 in their second innings on the  fourth day of the first test against England at Trent Bridge  yesterday.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – James Anderson’s  inspired swing bowling helped England skittle Pakistan for a record low of just 80 and wrap up a huge 354-run victory in the  first test at Trent Bridge yesterday.

Ricky Shakes will on Sunday become the first ever professional English league player to play for the Guyana national team.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago finished third in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, when they crushed Jamaica by 10 wickets in the low-scoring, weather-affected Consolation Final yesterday.

The Port Mourant Turf Club annual one-day Emancipation Horse Race today is expected to be one with a difference, sporting new  features.

Thirty-six youth cricketers have been selected to attend a Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) organised one-day Skills Development Programme on Tuesday at the National Gymnasium from 9am The programame will be conducted in two sessions; the 19 selected under-15 players will occupy the centre from 9am to 12pm while the 17 under-19 players will begin their session at  1pm and it will conclude at 4pm.

Twelve teams will engage in battle tomorrow when the Stag Beer Emancipation Domino Competition which is organized by Gittens Promotions, gets underway at the Guinness Bar on Durban Street from 1pm.

-pledges to take table tennis places By Tamica Garnett Commissioner of Police Henry Greene was yesterday unanimously elected president of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at Zoom Inn Hotel on Croal Street.

Berbice’s top junior cyclist and captain of the Flying Ace Cycling Club, Neil Reece, has been selected by the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) to represent Guyana at the Junior Caribbean Championships which will be held in Aruba on August 7 and 8.

Cozier on Sunday After a lukewarm start in a constituency more concerned at the time with calypso tents, all-night fetes and Kadooment costumes and in spite of Trinidad’s routinely wet July, the WICB’s first regional T20 championship came nicely to the boil for last night’s final at the Queen’s Park Oval.

The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) has revealed the names of five young cyclists who will represent Guyana at the Caribbean Youth Championships on August 7 and 8 in Aruba.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West Virginia, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Stephen Ames warmed up for Sunday’s final round at the US$6 million Greenbrier Classic with an impressive three-under 67 yesterday.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – An unbroken sixth-wicket partnership between Derone Davis and Akeal Hosein hauled Trinidad and Tobago out of trouble and steered them to a convincing five-wicket win over Barbados in the second round of the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 One-Day Trophy yesterday.

BUDAPEST, Hungary, CMC – Lewis Hamilton will start fifth in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix after the Red Bulls took control of the front row with the fastest times in final qualifying yesterday.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Briton Mo Farah destroyed his  rivals to win the European 5,000 metres title  yesterday and  become only the fifth man to claim the continental distance  double after Tuesday’s gold medal in the 10,000.

-Guyana’s men’s rugby team crowned itself in glory when they added the NACRA championships to their CAC gold medal yesterday By Floyd Christie Pipped in extra time.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Royston Crandon snared three wickets in the final over as Guyana withstood a late onslaught from Dwayne Bravo to reach the Grand Final of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship with a stunning four-run victory over hosts Trinidad & Tobago yesterday.